What does a bug mean to Riot; a dialogue of questions.

LastManOnEarth·10/17/2016, 10:26:26 PM·6 votes·797 views

Here's a bug. Wooglet's Witchcapp tooltip doesn't show the bonus ap earned from passive. Easy enough fix. How about the visual bug that shows Aurelion Sol's trio balls of fire floating piecewise around their axis of orbit. Kinda like they update only when asked if at that. How about the thin slivers of text that seem to float above the attack damage and ap numbers in the ui. Well, let's talk about these three bugs and the thousands more that exist because of poor quality control and poor development standards but won't be fixed because Riot just doesn't care about a quality game.

What does it take for Riot to fix a bug?

This isn't a novel question, rather it's been said since pre-alpha testing. Honestly from being around that long I know that Riot has had some ups and downs in total bugs per patch created. But really we might say that it takes a learning experience to prevent more from happening. Riot QA dept. take note.

3 Comments

Brutalitops0110/17/2016, 10:48:42 PM4 votes

Riot doesn't care about a quality game, huh? Look at how many bugs are fixed in every patch. Watch this video talking about their bug testing process, and tell me again that they don't care. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAlV4mCW5Rg

Riot has an automatic testing system that tests about 100,000 different things in the code daily. Does that guarantee that no bugs will ever get through? No, but the bugs that do are usually pretty obscure, or something that the code changes they input into the system shouldn't have changed, but did. If they're extremely small, they'll be fixed eventually. The more major bugs getting fixed can do a lot more things, including getting hotfixes, bug fixes releasing with patches, or for the extremely major ones, even shutting down League (or Ranked) as a whole while Riot fixes them. All the extremely major bugs that once made Riot shut down Ranked for several days while they fixed them just aren't showing up anymore because of this system.

SlntReaper10/17/2016, 10:38:41 PM1 votes

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Micbran10/18/2016, 3:34:10 AM1 votes

You make it sound like fixing bugs is easy.